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WWE WrestleMania 40 Night 1 Results

  • WOMEN’S WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP
    Rhea Ripley (c) def. Becky Lynch
  • SIX-PACK CHALLENGE LADDER MATCH FOR THE UNDISPUTED WWE TAG TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP
    The Judgment Day (c) (Damian Priest and Finn Balor) vs. Awesome Truth vs. The New Day vs. DIY vs. New Catch Republic vs. Austin Theory & Grayson Waller

Austin Theory & Grayson Waller win SmackDown Tag Titles – Awesome Truth (The Miz & R-Truth) win RAW Tag Titles

  • Rey Mysterio & Andrade def. Dominik Mysterio & Santos Escobar

Two masked individuals hit the ring to help Rey and Escobar. They turned out to be Jason Kelce and Lane Johnson of the Philadelphia Eagles.

  • Jey Uso def. Jimmy Uso
  • Bianca Belair, Jade Cargill & Naomi def. Damage CTRL (Asuka, Dakota Kai & Kairi Sane)
  • INTERCONTINENTAL CHAMPIONSHIP
    Sami Zayn def. Gunther (c) to become new IC Champion
  • The Rock and Roman Reigns de. Cody Rhodes and Seth Rollins

Undisputed Universal Championship Match: Roman Reigns vs. Cody Rhodes will be Bloodline Rules

WWE NXT Stand & Deliver 4/6/2024 (Results)

  • During the Countdown Show, Ava told the referee for Trick Williams vs Carmelo Hayes, Adrian Butler, to let Hayes & Williams have at it so there could be a decisive winner.
  • Ridge Holland attacked Joe Gacy with a Steel Chair during his entrance. Despite the attack, Gacy still managed to face Shawn Spears in his match.
  • NXT Stand & Deliver Countdown Show Match: Joe Gacy def. Shawn Spears via Pinfall (Upside Down Lariat).
  • After a video package running down the card for tonight’s show, Wade Barrett, Booker T & Vic Joseph welcomed the audience to the broadcast before transitioning into the opening match.
  • NXT Tag Team Championship Match: The Wolf Dogs (Baron Corbin & Bron Breakker) (c) def. Axiom & Nathan Frazer via Pinfall (Spear).
  • After some discussion, Oro Mensah outside of Oba Femi’s locker room to interview him, but Oba Femi pushed the door to make his way to the ring for his match.
  • NXT North American Championship Match: Oba Femi (c) def. DIJAK & Josh Briggs via Pinfall (Pop Up Liger Bomb).
  • Noam Dar interviewed Thea Hail, Fallon Henley & Kelani Jordan, where Dar asked Hail if she really thought Jacy Jayne was really her friend. Hail responded by locking in the Kimura Lock on Dar.
  • Thea Hail, Fallon Henley, & Kelani Jordan (w/ Andre Chase, Charlie Osbourne & Duke Hudson) def. Jacy Jayne, Kiana James & Izzi Dame (w/ Jasmyn Nyx) via Submission (Kimura Lock).
  • Ava announced the introduction of the NXT Women’s North American Championship.
  • Former NJPW STRONG Women’s Champion Giulia was spotted with Williams Regal and Roddy Ogawa on the crowd.
  • NXT Women’s Championship Match: Roxanne Perez def. Lyra Valkyria (c) via Submission (LeBell Lock) to win the title.
  • NXT Championship Match: Ilja Dragunov (c) def. Tony D’Angelo (w/ Adrianna Rizzo, Luca Crucifino & Channing “Stacks” Lorenzo) via Pinfall (Diving H-Bomb).
  • Trick Williams def. Carmelo Hayes via Pinfall (Trick Knee Strike).

Triple H Confirms A New WWE Draft Is Coming “In A Month Or So”

During an appearance on Impaulsive, Paul “Triple H” Levesque was asked by Logan Paul if the United States Champion could move from SmackDown to RAW when Netflix airs the program in January 2025.

Triple H responded:

“I’m sure we’ll see people float all over places. There’s a thing called, in a month or so, there is a thing called the Draft. That’s when you can switch around and make moves.”

The draft has been a fixture of WWE since 2002, with only occasional breaks including a year away in 2022.

It is unknown when the 2024 WWE Draft will take place as of this writing.

Source: Fightful via WrestleView

WWE Star Cody Rhodes Says His Tour Bus Caught Fire

In two days, Cody Rhodes will once again challenge Roman Reigns for the Undisputed WWE Universal Championship in the main event of WrestleMania. Before he steps onto WWE’s grandest stage, though, Rhodes has revealed some rather scary news.

As announced on X (formerly Twitter), Rhodes’ tour bus, which is currently sponsored by Wheatley American Vodka, unexpectedly caught on fire Thursday evening. Luckily, with the help of the Philadelphia Fire Department, all occupants were safely evacuated. Rhodes was even able to snag two undisclosed items out of his bus as well. 

“Before you hear it elsewhere – my tour bus caught fire last night,” Rhodes wrote. “Everybody is safe and okay. The 2 items I grabbed before I got off will probably pop wrestling fans. Again, thank you @PhillyFireDept.”

https://twitter.com/CodyRhodes/status/1776286637766398218

With his tour bus fire successfully extinguished, Rhodes will now pivot his focus back to the uphill battle that awaits him. 24 hours before facing Reigns for the Undisputed WWE Universal Championship, Rhodes will team up with Seth Rollins to take on the pair of Reigns and Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson in the main event of night one of WrestleMania 40. Should Rhodes and Rollins secure the win, The Bloodline members will be barred from night two’s title match. However, if Reigns and The Rock emerge victorious, night two’s title match will be contested under Bloodline Rules, where interference from The Bloodline isn’t just encouraged, but guaranteed.

WWE’s WrestleMania 40 premium live event will emanate from Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, with night one taking place on April 6, and night two on April 7.

Source: Wrestling Inc.

WWE WrestleMania 40 April 6 & 7 2024 (Card)

WWE WrestleMania XL – Saturday April 6 & Sunday April 7 from Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

CARDS

NIGHT 1

Cody Rhodes and Seth “Freakin” Rollins vs. The Rock and Roman Reigns
* If Rhodes and Rollins win, The Bloodline are banned from ringside during Rhodes vs. Reigns on Night 2. If Rock and Reigns win, Bloodline Rules becomes the stipulation of the title match *

WOMEN’S WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP
Rhea Ripley (c) vs. Becky Lynch

INTERCONTINENTAL CHAMPIONSHIP
Gunther (c) vs. Sami Zayn

Rey Mysterio & Andrade vs. Dominik Mysterio & Santos Escobar

Bianca Belair, Jade Cargill & Naomi vs. Damage CTRL (Asuka, Dakota Kai & Kairi Sane)

SIX-PACK CHALLENGE LADDER MATCH FOR THE UNDISPUTED WWE TAG TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP
The Judgment Day (c) (Damian Priest and Finn Balor) vs. Awesome Truth vs. The New Day vs. DIY vs. New Catch Republic vs. Austin Theory & Grayson Waller

Jey Uso vs. Jimmy Uso

NIGHT 2

UNDISPUTED WWE UNIVERSAL CHAMPIONSHIP
Roman Reigns (c) vs. Cody Rhodes

WWE WOMEN’S CHAMPIONSHIP
Iyo Sky (c) vs. Bayley

WORLD HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP
Seth “Freakin” Rollins (c) vs. Drew McIntyre

AJ Styles vs. LA Knight

UNITED STATES CHAMPIONSHIP
Logan Paul (c) vs. Randy Orton vs. Kevin Owens

PHILADELPHIA STREET FIGHT SIX-MAN TAG TEAM MATCH
The Pride’s Bobby Lashley & The Street Profits (Angelo Dawkins & Montez Ford) vs. Final Testament’s Karrion Kross & AOP (Akam & Rezar)

WWE NXT Stand & Deliver 4/6/2024 (Card)

WWE NXT Stand & Deliver PLE – Saturday April 6 from the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

CARD

Carmelo Hayes vs. Trick Williams

NXT CHAMPIONSHIP
Ilja Dragunov (c) vs. Tony D’Angelo

NXT WOMEN’S CHAMPIONSHIP
Lyra Valkyria (c) vs. Roxanne Perez

NXT NORTH AMERICAN CHAMPIONSHIP
Oba Femi (c) vs. Dijak vs. Josh Briggs

NXT TAG TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP
The Wolf Dogs (c) (Baron Corbin & Bron Breakker) vs. Axiom & Nathan Frazer

Thea Hail, Fallon Henley & Kelani Jordan vs. Jacy Jayne, Kiana James & Izzi Dame

Joe Gacy vs. Shawn Spears

WWE SmackDown Preview 4/5/2024

WWE SmackDown will air live tonight on FOX from the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia, PA.

  • Andre The Giant Memorial Battle Royal
  • Kevin Owens to host the KO Show with Special Guest: Randy Orton
  • Zelina Vega vs. Elektra Lopez
  • New Catch Republic vs. Grayson Waller & Austin Theory
  • Jey Uso vs. Solo Sikoa

Backstage News On Special Entrance Planned For Rhea Ripley At WWE WrestleMania 40

WrestleMania season means WWE will be bringing its A-game when it comes to the pomp and circumstance that usually surround “The Showcase of the Immortals.” One area that often gets a massive upscale is entrances, especially for popular champions like WWE Women’s World Champion Rhea Ripley.

PWInsider Elite is reporting that metalcore band Motionless In White is in Philadelphia for WrestleMania 40 weekend, likely set to play Ripley’s theme song “Demon In Your Dreams” — for which Chris Motionless provided the vocals — before Ripley’s match against “The Man” Becky Lynch on Night 1 of the two-night event. Ripley told Wrestling Inc. in an exclusive interview at last year’s WrestleMania that she was attempting to set up such a performance in the future; the band was unable to appear at WrestleMania 39 because they were in Germany at the time.

It was at WrestleMania 39 that Ripley won what is now the Women’s World Championship, dethroning Lynch’s Four Horsewomen comrade, Charlotte Flair. She has now held the title for a full year, but she’ll need all the motivation she can get, as she’s not only facing a tough former champion in Lynch, but also entering WrestleMania with wrist issues and other lingering problems that come with an active schedule like hers. Ripley is also keeping an eye on more than just Lynch, as she’s been paying attention to WWE’s latest signing Jade Cargill and is so far impressed with the former AEW TBS Champion’s progress. Ripley even said she’d like to step in the ring with Cargill somewhere down the line.

Source: Wrestling Inc.

Becky Lynch’s Autobiography Lands On New York Times Bestsellers List

Becky Lynch’s autobiography “The Man: Not Your Average Average Girl” is one the New York Times Best Sellers list.

Lynch is slated to challenge Rhea Ripley for the Women’s World Title on Saturday at WWE WrestleMania 40. About the book:

This compelling and candid memoir from WWE superstar Rebecca Quin—a.k.a. The Man, a.k.a. Becky Lynch—delves into her earliest wrestling days, her scrappy beginnings, and her meteoric rise to fame.

Raised in Dublin, Ireland, in a devoutly Catholic family, Rebecca Quin constantly invented new ways to make her mother worry—roughhousing with the neighborhood kids, hosting secret parties while her parents were away, enrolling in a warehouse wrestling school, nearly breaking her neck and almost kneecapping a WWE star before her own wrestling career even began—and she was always in search of a thrilling escape from the ordinary.

Rebecca’s childhood love of wrestling set her on an unlikely path. With few female wrestlers to look to for guidance, Rebecca pursued a wrestling career hoping to change the culture and move it away from the antiquated disrespect so often directed at the elite female athletes who grace the ring. Even as a teenager, she knew that she would stop at nothing to earn a space among the greatest wrestlers of our time and to pave a new path for female fighters.

Culled from decades of journal entries, Rebecca’s memoir offers a raw, exclusive, and honest depiction of the complex woman behind the character Rebecca Quin plays on TV.

She took to Twitter to celebrate the achievement.

Source: eWn

The Rock Is Giving One Fan An All-Expenses Paid Trip To WWE WrestleMania 40

Despite playing a convincing villain on WWE TV in recent months, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson is still as charitable as ever. Responding to a picture of a fan’s tattoo on social media platform X, Johnson invited the man and his daughter to this weekend’s WWE WrestleMania 40.

After seeing The Rock live last month, the fan had Johnson sign his arm. Before the marker washed away, the fan had the signature made permanent, with Johnson now rewarding his dedication. In addition to covering tickets to the show, transportation, and a hotel, Johnson even offered to cover the cost of food for the pair during their trip.

WrestleMania 40 will be a two-night affair once again, and the lineup for both shows has been announced. The Rock will team with his cousin, Roman Reigns, against Cody Rhodes and Seth Rollins on night one. Should Johnson and Reigns win, Sunday’s main event between Reigns and Rhodes will have the Bloodline Rules stipulation. If Rhodes and Rollins win, then The Bloodline will be banned from ringside.

Including the drama involving The Bloodline, WrestleMania 40 is set to feature 13 matches. Rhea Ripley will defend the Women’s World Championship against Becky Lynch, a Six-Pack Ladder Match is scheduled with the Undisputed WWE Tag Team Championship on the line, and Logan Paul will attempt to hang onto the WWE United States Championship in a Triple Threat with Kevin Owens and Randy Orton. Brothers Jimmy and Jey Uso will face each other in singles action for the first time, and Sami Zayn will attempt to topple GUNTHER to capture the WWE Intercontinental Championship, along with several other matches.

Source: Wrestling Inc.